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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1956)
Feeding the Family By ZOLA VINCENT Food Editor Plentiful Oniom Give Zest to Many a Menu Specialty For seasoning, no other veg etable can be used in such in finite variety of ways as onions. Onions are unusually plentiful due to rains that fell on the many onion-g rowing areas; mostly the big, mild or "sweet and juicy" Bermuda-type so pop ular with hamburgers and for the making of sandwiches and salads; big enough for baking and stuffing, too. There is also plenty of the smaller yellow ones that are especially good for seasoning because of their strong pungent flavor. Cooked Onion Ideas Popular creamed and au gra- tm, onions also are delicious simply stewed with tomatoes or combined with either fresh or leftover cabbage, carrots or cel ery. In fact, medly of the fore going vegetables is both delicious and attractive. Baked Onions. Peel medium size sweet onions. C'jt in half crosswise. Arrange in buttered baking dish. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and dot with butter or margarine. Add enough water to cover bottom of dish. Cover and bake in moderate oven, 375 degrees; about 30 minutes. Top with bread or cracker crumbs. Sprinkle with finely grated cheese for added distinction. Re turn to oven for 15 minutes to brown crumbs, melt cheese. French Fried Onions. Parboil one pound of small onions for 10 minutes; drain and dry thor oughly. Make a batter by beating one egg together with two table spoons of milk and four to five tablespoons sifted flour to make a thin batter. Add salt. Dip on ions in batter and fry in hot deep fat until golden brown. Drain on paper. Sprinkle with salt and serve. For gourmet touch, sprin kle while very hot with grated hard cheese.. Haw Onion Mighty Good. Slices of big, mild sweet onions add zest to hot and cold sand wiches. Onion rings 'are attrac tive and add texture and interest to any vegetable or meat salad. For a change, try grapefruit sec tions, onion rings and crisp let tuce with tart salad dressing. Cottage Cheese Salad. Allow ing one-half cup cottage cheese per serving, combine with chop ped green onions, finely sliced celery, chopped tomatoes, grated raw carrots, or apple cubes. Fruited Pot Roast Enjoy plentiful, economical pot roast in a new way. -This will rate high praise from the family; is wonderfully good hot and also top-flight when sliced cold the next day. A rolled, boned rump roast is one of the finest cuts for pot roasting; snug, shapely and easy to carve. Brown a three to five pound beef pot roast in two tablespoons hot fat in a heavy kettle. Add two cups water and three table spoons mixed pickling spice; cover tightly and simmer three to 3Vi hours or until fork tender. During last hour of cooking, add one cup dried apricots or prunes or a combination of the two for distinctive flavor interest. Six to eight servings. Columbia River Smelts Famed and currently plentiful Columbia river smelts make marvelous eating like this: Pan Fried Smelts. Sprinkle both' sides of dressed smelts with salt and pepper. Roll in a mix ture of flour and corn meal. Place fish in a heavy frying pan containing about one-eighth inch of melted fat, hot but not smok ing. Fry at moderate heat. Brown fish on one side, turn carefully and brown other side. . Cooking time about five to 10 minutes. Drain on absorbent paper. Gar nish with lemon or lime slices f.md parsley. Serve plain or with any favored sauce. Baked Smelts. Dip 11 j pounds pan-ready smelts in beaten egg and then in cracker crumbs, sea son with salt and pepper. Lay in buttered pan, putting a piece of butter on top of each fish. Bake in hot oven, 400 degrees, 10 to 15 minutes until nicely browned. Serve on hot plate gar nish with lemon and parsley. Careful not to over cook Curry Sauced Vegetables Fresh or frozen Brussels sprouts, cauliflower or broccoli will take on drama, color and nutritive values with this zippy curry - mayonnaise sauce: For each four servings, melt two tablespoons butter over very low heat; stir in one-fourth 'teaspoon finely minced garlic, one-half teaspoon curry powder. Add one half cup mayonnaise. Stir fre quently. Just before pouring over iiMi'inrfikii'ii'iiMMtiir-"' ' 1 Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport hot vebetables, stir in one table spoon lemon juice. Check-List on Best Buys Found in Local Markets Budgeteers will find much cause for rejoicing as they scan this column and also scan the food and grocery advertisements in this newspaper. We can tell you about the agricultural plen tiful which are reflected in the advertisements along with the specially merchandised items of the individual advertiser. Each market takes special pride in the good buys of var ious departments, the car-load lots, introductory or special of fers, clearance of seasonal packs of canned goods and other "spe cials." Watch for special displays in the stores, too. Meat Story. Beef, pork, lamb, broilers and fryers are plentiful, reasonable to bargain priced depending on the part of the critter the cuts come from. Fish Story. Good fishing, thanks to good weather, results in abundance of fish for steaks and for baking; eastern white fish, nothern ling cod, sablefish, Mississippi catfish among others. Fresh fillets of ling cod. rock fish, true cod, Dover and Petrale sole. Pan readies include rex sole, trout, sandabs, Columbia River smelt. Great excitement about whole Dungeness crab which is soooo good. You'll also find fresh eastern and Pacific oysters in the bigger markets along with frozen shellfish vari eties. Vegetable Story. Asparagus now reasonable. A super abun dance of dry onions and plenty of potatoes; both in daily use in most menus. Lots of cabbage for use as hot vegetable and for cole slaw making. Carrots for cooking and for salad making. Good quality lettuce for the daily salad. Among vegetables, also canned green bean special buys and plenty of small red and t white dry bean bargains. j Fruit Story. Storagd apples in good variety bi$&,remember to use soon becauw they're no longer good home keepers. A super abundance of California dates, plenty of grapefruit, oranges, canned Kadota figs, can ned and frozen cherries. Straw berries increasing. Other Good Buys. Milk and dairy products abundance re minds us to use more cottage and Cheddar cheese. Use plentiful as vegetable tonight. Peanut but ter is packed with good nutri tion at low cost right now. WHAT DID SHE SAY? Costa Mesa, Calif. ttJ.R) A woman complained to the Hu mane Society that mocking birds dived at her every time she left the house. The society told her, "It's mating season and we can't do much about it." SUPPORT FOR RUSSIANS? Washington (U.R) Among the non-strategic goods which the United States freed Thurs day for trade with Russia were brassieres and bust supporters. Union Organizer Missed by Bullets Miami (U.R) Two shots fired Wednesday night by an un seen gunman narrowly missed Bert Ross, prominent Miami and New York union organizer. Bullets shattered a window about a foot above the labor leader's head, showering him and his wife with broken glass as they sat in their living room. Both were unhurt. Ross, international vice-president of the Hotel, Bartenders and Restaurant Employees Un ion, AFL-CIO, said he has no idea who might have attempted to murder him. But he hinted that the shoot ing might stem from his attempt to organize the workers at Mi ami Beach hotels. Ross' union has been conduct ing a vigorous drive to unionize the hotels and his union has been on a strike against a ma jority of those which have re fused to sign contracts. Friday, April 27. 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Laughs of the Day . . . Stockholm -:U.R "Wake up dear, there's a tanker in the gar den," Anders Lagerkuist shouted to his wife. They called police who found a drunken Norwegian mechanic had taken the 150-ton tanker Sydtank for a joy ride and ploughed it into the Lagerkuist waterfront property. baby. He was booked on a nar cotics charge. San Jose. Calif. U.R) Frank J. Donohue, 55, of Palo Alto, drew a S100 fine Wednesday for drawing state unemployment pay at the same time he held a "job as a bill collector. Donohue protested that he applied for un employment compensation be cause he didn't earn enough at bill collecting to pay hii own bills. Des Moines, la. OJ.R) Gregory Sandage, 5, stuck his finger in the hole of a manhole cover to find out what was underneath. It took a Fire Department squad to pry him loose. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. Metamora, 111. U.P) Parish-; ior.ers of St. Mary's Catholic ; Church had planned an outdoor ; procession Wednesday to . pray I for rain but had to call it off. It i was raining loo hard. New York U.R) Detectives raiding George De Prad's apart ment Wednesday found ten ounces of liquid cocaine, worth 4,000, in a baby bottle. De Prad, 48, had told them the i bottle contained a special for j mula for his three-month-old ROAD OILING DUST PALLIATVE - ROAD MIX All Types of Asphalt Work Concrete Work Trenching HUGHES & DODD CO. PHONE 3-4221 1 jftiWrmrriM if mm m M Lore Beo Die JL named. J one . own Chevrolets than any other car! 0f course we haven't actually counted all the Joneses. But it seems a safe guess. Because this year - as they have ye,ar after year - more people are buying Chevrolets. And 2 million more people drive Chevrolets than any other car. Maybe you ought to come in and see why this is so. (Are you keeping up with the Joneses?) f America's largest selling car 2 million more J V owners than THE NEW BEL AIR SPORT COUPE with Body by Fisher one of 20 frisky new Chevrolet models. . and Bartleit Streets Phone 2-6115 Medford
